Do you have any holy grails of rare editions that you have or still wish you could have?

Do you have any holy grails of rare editions that you have or still wish you could have?

My holy grails which were pretty rare and took me a while to obtain, were:
-Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Easton Press)
-The Master And Margarita (Folio Society)
-The Consumer, by Michael Gira
-Hardcover copy of The Book of Disquiet, translated by Richard Zenith

My ultimate holy grail is the book that you see in the OP picture. A leatherbound copy of the Charles Feidelson Jr annotated Moby Dick. It's apparently only appeared for sale on the internet once in any history I can find through google searching. It sold back in august and I'm kicking myself that I didn't notice it back then. I'm going to have unrequited dreams for quite a while, I'm sure.

How expensive are these collections anyways?

I looked up some Folio editions and they were all 500+ dollars. If you wanted a collection of Shakespeare's plays in must run you nearly 5000 - 10 000 dollars. Just for fucking books.

I couldn't care a damn about physical books and I find your desires here to be vain and pathetic

>just for books
It's not your thing, it is other people's thing.

The prices on these books vary drastically. The consumer, book of disquiet, and do androids dream of electric sheep ran me about 200 dollars each, but they can all vary wildly in price. The current do androids dream of electric sheep easton press copy is going for about 500 dollars on amazon right now. The master and margarita I got for about 120 from a local England ebay auction in which I convinced the seller to ship it internationally.

I would love to collect it if I ever managed to afford it. But it strikes me as a rich man's hobby: like golfing.

A really beautiful book is a work of art itself. I don't know why edition I had, but when I went to university I read a very nice light-blue, leather-bound, gold etched, copy of Leaves of Grass. The best looking book I ever saw. The pages themselves looked amazing and textured even.

But desu I'd sooner drop 5000 on an amazing TV, an amazing Computer, and still have some left over for an amazing camera. Hopefully a drone some day to. I want to LARP as a film maker.

But a bookshelf of folio would be the cherry on top.

Wanting nice books is a gift inunitself. Its not about how you look to other people. Although that's nice too

>Its not about how you look to other people.

Suuuuuuuuuure

It's really not. If you've ever appreciated anything visually or texturally you can understand the appeal of high quality books.

You don't know what you're missing until you see a miss-mash of random weather editions that are varying heights and widths on a bookshelf.

If you get things all in uniform editions it looks and feels satisfying. Like a kitchen/living room that all has matching decor and a complimentary color scheme. Instead of a random assortment of cheap shitty furnishing or ugly ass chipped paint.

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRE

lol I don't have any physical books. I just download epubs to my phone